Guest blog: Srisharan Shreedharan
My pathway into Geology My formal undergraduate training is in geological engineering. This included learning about everything from building tunnels…
Guest blog: Ake Fagereng
I’m sailing on this expedition as a structural geologist, and as such my main interest is in how rocks deform…
Two observatories give us stereo vision inside the slow slip zone
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Watch ‘Old meets New’ – how we used the ‘lost art’ of rope splicing in our high-tech subseafloor observatory
Watch Patrick Fulton explain how he learnt the ‘lost art’ of rope splicing to connect the chemistry instrument (‘ososampler’) and…
Guest Blog: Hannah Rabinowitz
Growing up in New Mexico, it’s hard to avoid the sheer majesty of the Earth and the enormity of geologic…
Seamounts – are they an important piece of the slow slip puzzle?
As we mentioned in our last blog, Site U1520 sits at the base of Tūranganui Knoll. This is an isolated…
Deep in the Hikurangi Subduction Zone
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The stages of Te Matakite’s installation
Our first observatory on Expedition 375 is one of the most complex ever installed because instrument packages have to fit in the…
The observatory is like a Russian Doll
The stages of installing New Zealand’s first observatory To gain a window into this previously inaccessible environment, we are taking…
One of the most complex observatories in the world
Te Matakite, the sub-seafloor observatory we are installing in the Hikurangi Subducton zone, is not the only observatory in the…